MiniMax, the AI research company behind the MiniMax omni-modal model stack, has released MMX-CLI — Node.js-based command-line interface that exposes the MiniMax AI platform’s full suite of generative capabilities, both to human developers working in a terminal and to AI agents running in tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenCode.
What Problem Is MMX-CLI Solving?
Most large language model (LLM)-based agents today are strong at reading and writing text. They can reason over documents, generate code, and respond to multi-turn instructions. But they have no direct path to generate media — no built-in way to synthesize speech, compose music, render a video, or understand an image without a separate integration layer such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Building those integrations typically requires writing custom API wrappers, configuring server-side tooling, and managing authentication separately from whatever agent framework you are using. MMX-CLI is positioned as an alternative approach: expose all of those capabilities as shell commands that an agent can invoke directly, the same way a developer would from a terminal — with zero MCP glue required.
The Seven Modalities
MMX-CLI wraps MiniMax’s full-modal stack into seven generative command groups —
mmx text
,
mmx image
,
mmx video
,
mmx speech
,
mmx music
,
mmx vision
, and
mmx search
— plus supporting utilities (
mmx auth
,
mmx config
,
mmx quota
,
mmx update
).
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The
mmx textcommand supports multi-turn chat, streaming output, system prompts, and JSON output mode. It accepts a--modelflag to target specific MiniMax model variants such asMiniMax-M2.7-highspeed, withMiniMax-M2.7as the default. -
The
mmx imagecommand generates images from text prompts with controls for aspect ratio (--aspect-ratio) and batch count (--n). It also supports a--subject-refparameter for subject reference, which enables character or object consistency across multiple generated images — useful for workflows that require visual continuity. -
The
mmx videocommand usesMiniMax-Hailuo-2.3as its default model, withMiniMax-Hailuo-2.3-Fastavailable as an alternative. By default,mmx video generatesubmits a job and polls synchronously until the video is ready. Passing--asyncor--no-waitchanges this behavior: the command returns a task ID immediately, letting the caller check progress separately viammx video task get --task-id. The command also supports a--first-frame <path-or-url>flag for image-conditioned video generation, where a specific image is used as the opening frame of the output video. -
The
mmx speechcommand exposes text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis with more than 30 available voices, speed control, volume and pitch adjustment, subtitle timing data output via--subtitles, and streaming playback support via pipe to a media player. The default model isspeech-2.8-hd, withspeech-2.6andspeech-02as alternatives. Input is capped at 10,000 characters. -
The
mmx musiccommand, backed by themusic-2.5model, generates music from a text prompt with fine-grained compositional controls including--vocals(e.g."warm male baritone"),--genre,--mood,--instruments,--tempo,--bpm,--key, and--structure. The--instrumentalflag generates music without vocals. An--aigc-watermarkflag is also available for embedding an AI-generated content watermark in the output audio. -
mmx visionhandles image understanding via a vision-language model (VLM). It accepts a local file path or remote URL — automatically base64-encoding local files — or a pre-uploaded MiniMax file ID. A--promptflag lets you ask a specific question about the image; the default prompt is"Describe the image." -
mmx searchruns a web search query through MiniMax’s own search infrastructure and returns results in text or JSON format.
Technical Architecture
MMX-CLI is written almost entirely in TypeScript (99.8% TS) with strict mode enabled, and uses Bun as the native runtime for development and testing while distributing to npm for compatibility with Node.js 18+ environments. Configuration schema validation uses Zod, and resolution follows a defined precedence order — CLI flags → environment variables →
~/.mmx/config.json
→ defaults — making deployment straightforward in containerized or CI environments. Dual-region support is built into the API client layer, routing Global users to
and CN users to
, switchable via
mmx config set --key region --value cn
.
Key Takeaways
- MMX-CLI is MiniMax’s official open command-line interface that gives AI agents native access to seven generative modalities — text, image, video, speech, music, vision, and search — without requiring any MCP integration.
- AI agents running in tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenCode can be set up with two commands and a single natural language instruction, after which the agent learns the full command interface on its own from the bundled SKILL.md documentation.
- The CLI is designed for programmatic and agent use, with dedicated flags for non-interactive execution, a clean stdout/stderr separation for safe piping, structured exit codes for error handling, and a schema export feature that lets agent frameworks register mmx commands as JSON tool definitions.
- For AI devs already building agent-based systems, it lowers the integration barrier significantly by consolidating image, video, speech, music, vision, and search generation into a single, well-documented CLI that agents can learn and operate on their own.
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